Posted on 04/19/2023 3:16:13 AM PDT by cotton1706
Ohio has become a Trump-friendly state over the last eight years, and the political evolution of newly minted Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno is an illustration of MAGA being the new normal for the GOP.
Moreno, a Cleveland businessman who briefly ran for an open Senate seat in Ohio last election cycle, said on Tuesday that he will challenge Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) in one of the most pivotal Senate races for Republicans on the battleground map.
Moreno’s announcement effectively cements his ideological conversion from an establishment GOP donor to a full-blown MAGA Republican who is now strongly positioned to notch the endorsement of former President Donald Trump.
“I’m running for U.S. Senate because I’ve had enough of the insider politicians in both parties selling us out,” Moreno, 56, declared in a social media post. “They’re too weak and too cowardly to get the job done. We need a new generation of political outsiders with some spine to put America First.”
Even as he had once privately expressed skepticism of Trump during his first presidential campaign, Moreno has worked to ingratiate himself to the former president. Early last year, he agreed to withdraw from a crowded GOP primary after meeting with Trump, he said in a statement at the time. They had both concluded, Moreno explained, that the race was filled with “too many Trump candidates and could cost the MAGA movement a conservative seat.”
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Bernie Moreno would be a big improvement over Sherrod Brown.
I saw the interview Bannon had with Moreno on the WarRoom yesterday. Moreno is very impressive, in the mold of J D Vance.
I was skeptical of JD but he has proven to be solid. Still a little wishy washy on Warner’s RESTRICT act. Waiting.
A potted plant would be a big improvement over Horrid Brown!
LOL. I would definitely vote for Potted Plant over Sherrod Brown.
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